I want to ask, how can I tweak my sounds from speakers. It now sounds so tinny, like the sound comes from a tin can. In Windows, I don't have any problems with it, but in Ubuntu it sounds just awful.

In search of a solution, I spent approximately six hours. I tried to reinstall the alsa drivers, tweak settings in alsamixer and I also try to restart pulseaudio. Nothing worked for me.

The off sound can be heard when someone in the track (sound) speaks a bit louder. When someone speaks normal, it's little bit better, and when I lower the volume it sounds even less tinny, but it can still be heard.

Do you have any tips?

I'm having this issue on a Lenovo Ideapad U510 with Intel Core i3. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.

can you please provide details on how to do this?
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amcMay 19 '14 at 19:29

This might help for volume, but "tinny-ness"?
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belacquaMay 19 '14 at 19:32

I have this pb with a previous version. And I know to change alsamixer default 2 chan in 6 chan (for me) resolve (for me again) my pb. May be it was luck. But the other solution is to see the "pilot" or oss (but not very fun for multi flux). I have the same audio chipset but I don't have this pb with this version of Ubuntu.
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samMay 19 '14 at 20:05